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What explains the rise of humans?

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Title:
What explains the rise of humans?
Speaker:
Yuval Noah Harari
Description:
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Video Language:
English
Team:
closed TED
Project:
TEDTalks
Duration:
17:08

  • Delia Bogdan

    at 16:22 he sais: „Again: it's only prophecy".

  • Delia Bogdan

    I think this is what he intended to say: "Again, it's just(only) an assumption (presumption)
    It's about enumerating the possibilities,
    from which one"...
    Maybe this is due to the fact that he's not a native English speaker.

  • Camille Martínez

    Hi Delia,

    I've listened again and I do hear "...it's not a prophecy." Also, in terms of context, a prophecy would be a more of a specific prediction, but he goes on to give different possibilities, possible scenarios of what could potentially happen, though no one is sure at this moment how things will turn out.

    But I will ask Brian Greene, the new Annotation + Transcription Editor, to come in and give it a listen, just to verify.

    Thanks,
    Camille

  • Brian Greene

    Hi Della, Camille:

    Thank you for bringing this to our attention!

    I hear, "It's not a prophecy," and so I don't think this warrants a change.

    Best,
    Brian

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